1 The horses, which had been unharnessed and fed, were again attached to the scarlet machine.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 2 On the sheltered side was a turnip-slicing machine, whose bright blue hue of new paint seemed almost vocal in the otherwise subdued scene.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVI 3 They were at some distance from the man who turned the slicer, and the movement of the machine, too, sufficiently prevented Alec's words reaching other ears.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVI 4 Those, too, on the corn-rick talked a little; but the perspiring ones at the machine, including Tess, could not lighten their duties by the exchange of many words.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVII 5 Dinner-time came, and the whirling ceased; whereupon Tess left her post, her knees trembling so wretchedly with the shaking of the machine that she could scarcely walk.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVII 6 To Tess's surprise Farmer Groby came up on the machine to her, and said that if she desired to join her friend he did not wish her to keep on any longer, and would send somebody else to take her place.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII 7 The machine had begun, and a moving concatenation of three horses and the aforesaid long rickety machine was visible over the gate, a driver sitting upon one of the hauling horses, and an attendant on the seat of the implement.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 8 She was the only woman whose place was upon the machine so as to be shaken bodily by its spinning, and the decrease of the stack now separated her from Marian and Izz, and prevented their changing duties with her as they had done.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII 9 In a minute it came up on the other side of the field at the same equable pace; the glistening brass star in the forehead of the fore horse first catching the eye as it rose into view over the stubble, then the bright arms, and then the whole machine.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV 10 The rat was at last dislodged, and, amid the barking of dogs, masculine shouts, feminine screams, oaths, stampings, and confusion as of Pandemonium, Tess untied her last sheaf; the drum slowed, the whizzing ceased, and she stepped from the machine to the ground.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVIII 11 A man was turning the handle of the machine, and from its trough came the newly-cut swedes, the fresh smell of whose yellow chips was accompanied by the sounds of the snuffling wind, the smart swish of the slicing-blades, and the choppings of the hook in Tess's leather-gloved hand.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas HardyContextHighlight In PART 6 The Convert: XLVI